View Wearing Masks During Spanish Flu Images. Officials rushed through laws requiring people to wear masks in public. All of america it seemed put on masks.

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Measures to curb the spanish flu's spread in 1918 were stricter than with today's coronavirus, and flouting them could lead to your murder, it has emerged. The spanish flu in 1918 decimated japan, causing an estimated 2 million deaths. © otis historical archives, national museum of health and medicine).

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The spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by the h1n1 influenza a virus. The spanish flu in 1918 decimated japan, causing an estimated 2 million deaths. Officials rushed through laws requiring people to wear masks in public. An expert on spanish flu in australia says a widespread rejection of face masks in 1919 caused a second wave.